What’s French fare without some wine, cheese and a little double entendre? Chef Townsend Wentz will be indulging in all of the above at his recently opened eponymous East Passyunk restaurant, Townsend. Chef Townsend, who trained with the locally renowned chef Jean-Marie Lacroix for more than 10 years before striking out on his own, embraces […]

Top Chef-winner chef Kevin Sbraga sends his dinner guests’ taste buds on a seasonal journey this month with the latest mulit-course tasting menu at his namesake restaurant. The new spring-focused, six-course bill of fare is available Monday through Thursday at Sbraga’s interactive chef’s counter throughout the month of April. This month, the chef’s counter menu […]

All month long, Sbraga will be hosting a Southern tasting menu. Iron Chef Kevin Sbraga’s Southern tasting menu will have your taste buds fully satisfied and have you drooling for more. The tasting menu is available from now until March 28 and runs from Monday-Thursday each week. Seating each day is at 6 p.m. The […]

Labeled recently by Food & Wine magazine as an “Empire Builder”, Chef Michael Solomonov will offer tastes of all the traditional Hanukkah favorites this season with a dash of celebrity chef excellence to boost the authentic spices and flavors to a whole delicious new level. For $48 a person, this year’s Hanukkah menu offers six […]

Chef Hiroyuki “Zama” Tanaka, known for his work at Pod, Morimoto and Genji at the Ritz Carlton, is offering three more tasting menus at his eponymous Rittenhouse sushi spot. Inspired by Center City District Restaurant Week, the three-course tasting menus are divided by categories (Maki, Sushi and Sashimi). For just $36, the Maki tasting starts […]

Located a few blocks from Rittenhouse Square, Meritage restaurant is offering a Lobster Tasting Menu for $39 per person tonight, Wednesday, August 22, through Friday, August 24. From amuse bouche to dessert, the menu offers a delicious taste of summer with plates like lobster bisque, lobster roll with sungold tomato salad and lobster and apple fritters. Browse the full five-course menu here. There’s an optional wine pairing for $20 if you want to round out your meal. Heads up, drivers: there is discounted parking at Park Safe on Lombard between 20th and 21st Streets. [Meritage]

Chef David Ansill, a legend in Philadelphia’s culinary realm, has made his way back to his roots and into the kitchen as executive chef at Owen Kamihira’s Bar Ferdinand, a modern Spanish tapas restaurant in Northern Liberties. Since the late 70s, Ansill cut his teeth at locations like Treetops at The Rittenhouse Hotel (now Lacroix) […]

Chef Ben Puchowitz of Matyson restaurant is turning out a new tasting menu this week that has our stomachs performing somersaults of delight. The BYOB took home Philadelphia Magazine’s Best of Philly award for “Best Tasting Menu” due to Puchowitz’s cleverly put-together rotating tasting menus he offers up each week. With the restaurant’s new win, […]